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...make something and you also have to wash the dishes.'" She indicates she will still watch over his style and appearance, perhaps dressing him a little more conservatively dressed than before. She told the magazine that she won't make him wear what the Japanese call "cool biz," a casual summer look that she finds inappropriate for the role of Prime Minister. Nevertheless, when she becomes Japan's next first lady, she has said that nothing much else will change about how she goes about her life. "I'll take trains just like I used to." She may refrain, however...
...movement into second-order subversion; “Fat City,” even as it eschews its own genre conventions, declines shallow existential meditation in witness to the reality of the bare need to survive. Gardener’s narrative ambivalence resonates with Tully’s own casual progression toward a death that, though the reader never sees, was long-since dealt to him.The novel’s relative obscurity has several high-profile exceptions, including Walker Percy, Joan Didion and Denis Johnson. Johnson proclaims Gardener’s influence on his work in an article for Salon.com...
...remarkable amounts of empathy and emotion out of his one-octave range, and his subtle vocal gifts shine throughout this album. Yet the greatest attraction is the guitar interplay of Tweedy and Nels Cline. Few guitar duos in rock history have their ability to delight both guitar enthusiast and casual fan. “Wilco (the Album)” is not quite a towering masterpiece, and some of its more ambitious moments may well be considered missteps. But the album’s many peaceful, laid-back gems are testaments to a band that, after years of conflicting ambitions...
...process, to get us all bummed about Google. Bing's slick ads are unavoidable and blistering. They suggest that Google is broken, that it rarely leads us to what we're looking for and turns us all into blathering zombies who spew out search keywords in casual conversation...
Likenesses of Buddha are these days so commonplace - the casual adornment of fashionable spas, fusion restaurants and Parisian nightclubs - that it is strange to think that artists once hesitated, out of reverence, to portray the Buddha in corporeal form. In 2nd century India, judging by a 2nd century sandstone carving excavated from Mathura, it was sufficient to simply depict an empty throne - the implication that the Buddha was a spiritual king being very clearly understood by anyone...